The News Review:
- Targa Tasmania diary day 2: memorabilia and anticipation
- Cadbury factory tours axed in Tasmania
- Lennon’s New Tasmania
- Devil of a marathon fundraiser
- The good oil on sport
- Correction to This Article
Targa Tasmania diary day 2: memorabilia and anticipation
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 14, 2008
There’s always something magical about lifting off in a small helicopter and today’s flight is even more enthralling thanks to the ever-surprising Tasmanian landscape. Today it looks like Devon but with longer emptier beaches; as we overfly a lone runner on the deserted expanse of golden sand Greg our host and previous Targa Tasmania winner (beating F1 legend Denny Hulme) tells us that he sometimes lands his fixed-wing aircraft on the beach when he fancies a quick swim; the water is generally 19-20 degrees in summer (which is Christmas time down here of course). As he evidently leads an utterly miserable existence I try to cheer him up with tales of London traffic and the Congestion Charge. After a lovely waterside lunch of roasted stripy trumpeter (it’s a fish if you hadn’t guessed and a very tasty one at that) we hop over to Longford where in the 1950s and 1960s a wickedly fast road circuit twice hosted the Australian Grand Prix and numerous Tasman races as well as sports car and motorcycle events.
Cadbury factory tours axed in Tasmania
NEWS.com.au – Apr 14, 2008
“To provide a tour facility that meets good manufacturing practice will require significant investment” the statement said. “Cadbury will continue to investigate ways to provide a safe world-class visitor experience at Claremont including working with third parties.
Lennon’s New Tasmania
n Line opinion – Apr 14, 2008
Peter Garrett’s systematic approval of Gunns’ pulp mill stage by stage if allowed to continue will increasingly stand as an indictment of his leader Kevin Rudd. After all Rudd said repeatedly that he would throw off the shackles of free-market fundamentalism of Howard’s neo-liberal “brutopia” claiming that “the country is entitled to a greater vision than one which merely aggregates individual greed and self-interest”.
Devil of a marathon fundraiser
abc.net.au – Apr 14, 2008
(Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and Water ). In parts of Tasmania up to 90 per cent of the devil population has been wiped out by a contagious cancer-like facial tumour disease. The 12 competitors have completed the marathon amidst 34000 other runners.
The good oil on sport
NEWS.com.au – Apr 14, 2008
The AFL is hosing down the speculation. HERE is part of a recent newspaper column: "Knock knock. Is anybody home? At the racing industry across mainland Australia and at our biggest gambling giant Tabcorp? The James Packer-affiliated Betfair and the tiny Tasmanian tote have stolen their lunch and dinner while they dozed. In fact the duo didn’t even have to do much ‘stealing’. The dozy mainlanders effectively said: ‘Here take it be our guest’. So tiny Tasmania becomes the conduit of the wagering of as many as one million Brits – and the take-out associated with that wagering – into Tabcorp’s SuperTAB pool. SuperTAB could have had the money and the profits coming in directly; and coming in years ago… In fact the duo didn’t even have to do much ‘stealing’. The dozy mainlanders effectively said: ‘Here take it be our guest’. So tiny Tasmania becomes the conduit of the wagering of as many as one million Brits – and the take-out associated with that wagering – into Tabcorp’s SuperTAB pool. SuperTAB could have had the money and the profits coming in directly; and coming in years ago. But in one of the great acts of corporate stupidity it conspired with the racing industry to keep it at bay. And now there’s nothing it can do to stop the foreign money coming in through Tasmania. " No it isn’t the ramblings of The Ear but rather from a column written by Australia’s leading financial analyst Terry McCrann.
Correction to This Article
Washington Post – Apr 14, 2008
The aim is to protect healthy devils until the disease can be stopped. Hoping for the Best”I remain hopeful we can save the devils” McCallum says. “The one ray of light” comes from western Tasmania where the disease has not reached and where the genetic makeup of the devils is slightly different from those living in the east. “If these differences are big enough to make them resistant to the disease” he says “we may be able to breed resistant devils from them. “It’s very important that we save the devil” Murchison says “because it is such a special special animal.